[Turnstile](https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/) is Cloudflare’s smart CAPTCHA alternative. It can be embedded into any website without sending traffic through Cloudflare and works without showing visitors a CAPTCHA.
This example shows how you can use **Cloudflare Turnstile** with your Next.js project. You can see a [live version here](https://with-cloudflare-turnstile.vercel.app/).
## Deploy your own
Deploy the example using [Vercel](https://vercel.com?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=next-example).
[](https://vercel.com/new/clone?repository-url=https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/cloudflare-turnstile&project-name=cloudflare-turnstile&repository-name=cloudflare-turnstile)
**Important**: When you import your project on Vercel, make sure to click on **Environment Variable**s and set them to match your .env.local file.
## How to use
Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app) with [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init), [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/), or [pnpm](https://pnpm.io) to bootstrap the example:
Deploy it to the cloud with [Vercel](https://vercel.com/new?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=next-example) ([Documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment)).
## Configuring Cloudflare Turnstile
### Get a sitekey and secret key
1. Go to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/turnstile) and select your account.
2. Go to Turnstile.
3. Select Add a site and fill out the form.
4. Copy your **Site Key** and **Secret Key**.
### Set up environment variables
To connect the app with Cloudflare Turnstile, you'll need to add the settings from your Cloudflare dashboard as environment variables
Copy the .env.local.example file in this directory to .env.local.
```bash
cp .env.local.example .env.local
```
Then, open .env.local and fill these environment variables:
